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The partitioning of the disks is listed in Table 3-6

Table 3-6 Detailed SSD and HDD disk partitioning

Management network adapter

The management network adapter is a standard feature of the FSM, and provides a physical

connection into the private management network of the chassis. The adapter is shown in

Figure 3-6 on page 49 as the everything-to-everything (ETE) adapter.

The management network adapter contains a Broadcom 5718 Dual 1GbE adapter and a

Broadcom 5389 8-port L2 switch. This card is one of the features that makes the FSM unique

compared to all other nodes supported by the Enterprise Chassis. The management network

adapter provides a physical connection into the private management network of the chassis.

The connection allows the software stack to have visibility into both the data and

management networks. The L2 switch on this card is automatically set up by the IMM2, and

connects the FSM and the onboard IMM2 into the same internal private network.

3.5.2 Software features

The IBM Flex System Manager management software has these main features:

򐂰 Monitoring and problem determination

– A real-time multichassis view of hardware components with overlays for additional

information

– Automatic detection of issues in your environment through event setup that triggers

alerts and actions

– Identification of changes that might affect availability

– Server resource utilization by virtual machine or across a rack of systems

򐂰 Hardware management

– Automated discovery of physical and virtual servers and interconnections, applications,

and supported third-party networking

– Inventory of hardware components

– Chassis and hardware component views

– Hardware properties

– Component names/hardware identification numbers

Physical disk Virtual disk size Description

SSD 50 MB Boot disk

SSD 60 GB OS/Application disk

SSD 80 GB Database disk

HDD 40 GB Update repository

HDD 40 GB Dump space

HDD 60 GB Spare disk for OS/Application

HDD 80 GB Spare disk for database

HDD 30 GB Service Partition

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– Firmware levels

– Utilization rates

򐂰 Network management

– Management of network switches from various vendors

– Discovery, inventory, and status monitoring of switches

– Graphical network topology views

– Support for KVM, pHyp, VMware virtual switches, and physical switches

– VLAN configuration of switches

– Integration with server management

– Per-virtual machine network usage and performance statistics provided to VMControl

– Logical views of servers and network devices grouped by subnet and VLAN

򐂰 Storage management

– Discovery of physical and virtual storage devices

– Support for virtual images on local storage across multiple chassis

– Inventory of physical storage configuration

– Health status and alerts

– Storage pool configuration

– Disk sparing and redundancy management

– Virtual volume management

– Support for virtual volume discovery, inventory, creation, modification, and deletion

򐂰 Virtualization management (base feature set)

– Support for VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, and IBM PowerVM

– Create virtual servers

– Edit virtual servers

– Manage virtual servers

– Relocate virtual servers

– Discover virtual server, storage, and network resources, and visualize the

physical-to-virtual relationships

򐂰 Virtualization management (advanced feature set)

– Create new image repositories for storing virtual appliances and discover existing

image repositories in your environment

– Import external, standards-based virtual appliance packages into your image

repositories as virtual appliances

– Capture a running virtual server that is configured just the way you want, complete with

guest operating system, running applications, and virtual server definition

– Import virtual appliance packages that exist in the Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF)

from the Internet or other external sources

– Deploy virtual appliances quickly to create new virtual servers that meet the demands

of your ever-changing business needs

– Create, capture, and manage workloads